Something has to give, though… I feel we’re stuck between two fronts moving in opposite directions, one being the continued degradation of our social world, and the other being the accumulated and now snowballing fatigue brought about by said degradation, and they’re just grinding us down while we’re trying to get a grip.

We’ve reached the point where hiding away in the backyard for a bit is too little to regain a significant enough portion of that energy debt, and to add to that, our backyards have now kinda’ been flooded with that bullshit which was still relatively manageable a decade ago. That applies even to those who are actively in denial, maybe even more than to those who at least look it in the eye, because mirror neurons are still a thing - this fatigue is a resonant frequency and we inevitably pick the stress up from everyone else around us, whether we want to or not. I’ve lived through a recession and I don’t remember people being this run down back then (no, we weren’t particularly rich, that belt was tightened up something fierce).

We’re cascading, everything’s cascading, and it’ll take all of us with it if we just let it happen. Something has to give.